Team
Core

Niraj Pant
Co-founderGP @ Polychain, Research @ Decentralized Systems Lab, CS @ UIUC

Akilesh Potti
Co-founderPartner @ Polychain, ML @ Palantir, HFT, Quant Trading @ Goldman, ML Research @ {MIT, Cornell}

Anish Agnihotri
MEV, Research @ Paradigm, Trading @ Polychain, CS @ UWaterloo

Eva Zhang
Founder @ Socket, Apple, Google, ML Research @ Stanford, Math & CS @ Stanford

Maryam Bahrani
Research @ a16z crypto, CS PhD @ Columbia (Tim Roughgarden), Quant Trader @ Jane Street, CS @ Princeton

Arka Pal
Deepmind, Abacus, Kosen, University of Cambridge

Naveen Durvasula
PhD student @ Columbia (Tim Roughgarden), Algorithmic Game Theory, EECS @ UC Berkeley

0xEmperor
Multi-disciplinary researcher - NLP and ML. Crypto research.

Dan Gosek
CoS @ Ava Labs, Political Science & Economics @ Columbia

Praveen Palanisamy
Principal AI Eng @ Microsft AI & Research, CS @ CMU

Achal Srinivasan
Collaborator to Paradigm, dYdX, and more. Previously Coinbase, CS @ Rice.

Wally Chang
DeFi @ Polychain, Algo Trading @ Goldman Sachs

Stelios Rousoglou
Founding Eng @ Alta, SWE @ C3, Masters in CS [AI] @ Stanford, CS @ Yale

Stef Henao
Head of People @ Protocol Labs, HRBP @ Coinbase, People Ops @ Hired, IB Analyst @ Credit Suisse

Arshan Khanifar
Research, Trading @ Polychain, RF @ Apple, EE @ UWaterloo

Peiyuan Liao
CTO + Co-Founder @ rabbit, ZKML @ zk-ml.xyz, ML systems research & GNNs @ CMU, GM @ Kaggle

Hadas Zeilberger
PhD Student @ Yale (Ben Fisch), Cryptography, Researcher @ Consensys, Math @ Columbia

Sarah McNeely
TPM @ Near, LucidWorks, PhD English Literature @ TCU

Jody Rebak
CoS @ Dapper Labs

Jeanine Boselli
Ops @ Palantir, Protocol Labs

Micah Goldblum
Postdoc @ NYU (Yann Lecunn), AI; PhD @ University of Maryland (Tom Goldstein), Mathematics

Mayank Pandey
PhD student @ Princeton (Peter Sarnak), Analytic Number Theory, Math @ Caltech, Citadel

Andrew Komo
PhD Student @ MIT, Algorithmic Game Theory, Jane Street, Math & CS @ MIT

William Wang
Ph.D. Student @ NYU (Benedikt Bünz, Joe Bonneau), Cryptography
Interns

Rahul Thomas
Quant Research @ HAP, ML research @ Stanford, olympiad enthusiast, RSI, Math + CS @ Stanford

Dennis Chen
Math & CS @ CMU, Jane Street, olympiad enthusiast

Erica Choi
Topology & ML Research @ Columbia + Georgia Tech, CS & Math @ Columbia

William Gvozdjak
Math & CS @ MIT, olympiad enthusiast, MIT PRIMES

Teo Kitanovski
CS @ Vanderbilt, Co-Founder @ eBionyx, IOI medalist

Louai Zahran
Olympiad enthusiast + Medalist
Advisors

Illia Polosukhin
Founder @ Near, Google Research, Tensorflow & Transformers, Co-Author “Attention is All You Need”

Arthur Hayes
CIO @ Maelstrom, Co-Founder @ BitMEX and 100x Group, Economics @ Wharton

Noam Nisan
Professor @ Hebrew University, Gödel Prize, Knuth Prize, Research @ Starkware, Research @ Google

Sreeram Kannan
Founder @ EigenLayer, Assistant Prof @ UW, Postdoc @ Stanford, PhD @ UC Berkeley

Tarun Chitra
Founder @ Gauntlet, GP @ Robot Ventures, HFT, DE Shaw Research, Math & CS @ Cornell

Divya Gupta
Partner @ Sequoia, ML @ Airbnb, Databricks, Palantir, CS @ Stanford

Sid Reddy
Research Scientist @ Isomorphic Labs, Meta Reality Labs, Deepmind, PhD @ UC Berkeley (Sergey Levine), CS @ Cornell